Mr. Evil's Desktop ... So anyway, this is my desktop PC. I don't build a complete system for my personal desktop. I do it instead in phases. An upgrade here ...

MrEvil · 11-19-2009, 03:32 AM

So anyway, this is my desktop PC. I don't build a complete system for my personal desktop. I do it instead in phases. An upgrade here and there and eventually it no longer contains parts less than a year or two old. The case I use is the Coolermaster ATCS 840, was thinking about custom fabricating my own case from Aluminium stock and doing the panels in Carbon Fiber laminate. However, this Coolermaster was just too nice and too beefy to pass up. It has more than enough room for my CPU/Northbridge cooling loop and has additional space in the lower section for a secondary loop dedicated to video cards.

That would be my next step, to install a PowerColor Radeon 5870 with Waterblock and put in a 2nd cooling loop for the video. I have space for a 2nd 2x120mm Radiator on the back side of my Hard Drives.

For now I'm only H2O cooling the CPU. The loop consists of a Swiftech Apogee GT Waterblock with a 2x120mm Radiator fed by a Swiftech MCP-350 pump/res combo in the top 5 1/4" bay. The Radiator is mounted in the top of the chassis where the pair of factory installed 240mm fans orginally sat (Coolermaster included a nifty set of adapters.) The next addition to this loop will be the ASUS compatible Chipset block. The Maximus II Formula I'm using has a unique heatsink over the northbridge that can be removed in favor of a special waterblock Swiftech developed specially for ASUS boards.

When I upgrade from LGA 775 I can get a new mounting kit for my Waterblock that will work with i7 and ASUS already has i7 boards out that support the chipset heatsink.

qhn · 11-19-2009, 03:49 AM

Another build with ATI

Cool!

Shaun · 11-19-2009, 08:58 AM

How was the benchmark submission process?

MrEvil · 11-20-2009, 04:43 AM

Shaun, the benchmark process was pain free.

Steve · 11-23-2009, 11:32 AM

finally indexed!

Shaun · 11-30-2009, 08:40 AM

Good to hear the benchmark system works well for a change

11-19-2009, 03:49 AM	#2
qhn ... am invisible Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 33,413 Credits: 94,670	Another build with ATI Cool! __________________ m6805@3700; SZ71WN/C ; Macbook 2ghz/4gig/250gb/superdrive; 7811FX are u Folding@Home? - Firefox Beta - MediaPortal "the" Media Centre/HTPC!

11-19-2009, 08:58 AM	#3
Shaun Administrator Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,322 Benchmarks: 2 Credits: 72,657	How was the benchmark submission process? __________________ Shaun Notebookforums.com

11-20-2009, 04:43 AM	#4
MrEvil The Dr House of PC repair Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Amarillo TX Posts: 4,456 Benchmarks: 5 Credits: 211	Shaun, the benchmark process was pain free. __________________ Notebook Forums' resident Dell/IBM/Sony field service technician. My Notebook: Dell Latitude D820 \| Intel Core Duo T2500 \| 2GB DDR2 \| 15" WSXGA screen \| nVidia Quadro 120m \| 250GB Hard Drive \| Samsung DVD-RW drive My Netbook: ASUS Eee(vil)PC 1000HE upgraded to 2GB of RAM running Windows 7 My Desktop: Intel Core 2 Quad QX9300 @ 3.5Ghz Liquid cooled \| 4GB Corsair Dominator DDR 1066 \| ATi Radeon 4870 \| Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB \| ASUS Maximus Formula motherboard \| Vista Ultimate x64

11-23-2009, 11:32 AM	#5
Steve Dukefrukem Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Boston Posts: 36,167 Reviews: 2 Benchmarks: 17 Credits: 1,701,596	finally indexed! __________________ ^ (my stuff)

11-30-2009, 08:40 AM	#6
Shaun Administrator Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,322 Benchmarks: 2 Credits: 72,657	Good to hear the benchmark system works well for a change __________________ Shaun Notebookforums.com

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